Thank you for pointing this out. When people know how to dance, strictly following line of dance rule is meaningless, because you end up dancing with other pairs on the floor co-creating a symbiotic dance of the whole group - that's when the whole new horizon of dancing opens up.
...dubravko =================================== seek, appreciate, and create beauty this life is not a rehearsal =================================== ----- Original Message ---- > From: NANCY <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; Phil Seyer <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, October 12, 2010 9:05:34 AM > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Line of Dance > > > > --- On Sat, 10/9/10, Phil Seyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Phil Seyer <[email protected]> > > One instructor points out in one of his videos that it's safe for him > to dance backwards > into a certain space because he knows the space is available since he > has just been > there himself moments > > That might work in Buenos Aires where the milongueros study the dance floor, >sometimes for hours, before they set foot on the pista and where they can >count >on all the other dancers following the line of dance and staying in their own >lanes. I danced with a gentleman who took seven ( count 'em) quick steps >backward, on a diagonal, into the center of the room without disturbing >anyone. >Anywhere else or in a milonga full of tourists doing their own thing with no >regard for the flow of the room, it would be a disaster. > > JMHO > Nancy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
